Merry xmas / new year everyone.
I'm after a new digital watch that has a thermometer and altimeter aswell as the normal stopwatch/alarms etc for under £100 (hopefully under £75). I've looked at Trek & Field's Stormlite range (Echo II & Compass Master II) and although they do everything I want and are only £40 and £60 respectively, they are very 'thick' and as I have weedy wrists, basically it will look daft on me everywhere except a mountainside (yes I know this is what it was actually designed for). Any ideas anyone?
Regards
Dave

Got myself a Casio Triple Sensor over in the States a couple of years ago for about £80. Changed the strap straight away to an Animal velcro one, I too have weedy wrists and it looks a bit chunky. One problem with thermometer watches is they pick up body heat and can give a false reading. Solution - the velcro wrist strap slides through the webbing of my rucsack shoulder strap, fastening the watch at a convenient place to view it. It's 100m waterproof so can take a drenching, but the compass starts to deviate if the watch isn't held true horizontal. Has altimeter, stopwatch, alarms and plots a graph of the days walk.

LIDL were doing a very good one for £20.

McDuck-
I had a triple sensor watch. The operative word is "had"!
I had the same idea about putting watch on rucksack shoulder strap. It worked fine, so well that i didn t notice it was there....
So when it s wrist strap managed to undo itself halfway up Bristly Ridge, i didn t notice until i was at the summit and wondering what time it was. Never did find it, but if anybody finds it i have the instructions available for sale (£150 say?)
So attach it to shoulder by all means but be bloody careful about how secure it is...
Now i m off to play in the snow!

Try this site they do the Casio Protrek range starting at about £70 inc free delivery.

www.jksupplies.co.uk

I've had mine for approx 2 years and it has been very good.